Advancing the Human Rights of Women & Girls
Amid intense social pressure to conform, a photographer in Seoul aims “to destroy the socially defined idea of a woman.” Women in her photos wear short hair and no makeup.
Source: South Korean Women ‘Escape The Corset’ And Reject Their Country’s Beauty Ideals : NPR
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has ruled in favour of more than 12 paedophiles, rapists and sex offenders in the last five years, allowing them to work with children.
A man who was groomed and abused by one of the paedophiles told the ABC allowing the man to work with children was a huge risk.
‘He shouldn’t be allowed to have a working with children permit, simply because he’s been convicted of paedophilia,’ he said.
‘It’s like putting the kid in the candy store and walking out and all the jars are open.’
Child protection organisation Bravehearts’ founder Hetty Johnson slammed the VCAT decisions, and said paedophiles should never be able to work with children.
Labor’s childcare policy would do more for the economy than either side’s proposed tax cuts.
Source: Why Labor’s childcare policy is the biggest economic news of the election campaign
Debates about reform to Australia’s family law system ebb and flow but are never far from public prominence for long, writes Nicole Rich.
There are several pressing areas for change, but most important is surely how the system responds to family violence. While state jurisdictions have pressed ahead with reforms following processes such as the Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence and the Queensland Not Now, Not Ever report, our national family law system governed by the Commonwealth has responded more slowly to growing community demand to address this scourge.
For parents who end up in the courts to resolve their parenting issues, 85 per cent report a history of emotional abuse and more than half report physical hurt from their former partner. Working in legal aid, we see this, too, with most of our family law cases involving family violence.
The flagship recommendation in the commission’s report is to consider scrapping our national family law courts altogether and working with the states and territories to merge family law into the state courts that already deal with family violence and child protection.
But, if adopted, this recommendation will take years to progress, and on its own won’t make the system safer or fairer, so quicker solutions are needed.
Source: Family law reform needs to move forward – Lawyers Weekly
“Emotional labour” might strike you as a strange term. We don’t necessarily want to think about emotions as “work,” or being thoughtful and considerate as “labour.” But what the concept speaks to is something real, that many women struggle with — particularly women in heterosexual relationships.
In a 2017 article for Harper’s Bazaar, Gemma Hartley wrote about the way in which women are socialized to pick up so much extra labour in terms of holding relationships together, planning trips, remembering events and birthdays, scheduling social and extracurricular activities, planning meals, etc. — generally thinking ahead, and taking care of life. And when we try to bring this up with our partners, we are accused of being nags, or of complaining. “I want a partner with equal initiative,” Gemma wrote.
Source: PODCAST: What is ’emotional labour’ and why are women sick of doing it all themselves?
There’s a lot at stake for women in the upcoming election, with some extraordinary candidates and parties popping up in our electoral landscape. It makes the role of feminism in holding men to account more important than ever.
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One of Australia’s leading feminists says she has been silenced from telling voters that the transgender founder of a new women’s rights political party was born a biological man.
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The Daily Telegraph published an article on Thursday claiming a Sydney lawyer and writer named Anna Kerr had been “silenced” when a paragraph of a column she wrote for women’s media website . . . which detailed De Vendre’s identity as a “transgender woman” was cut.
The newspaper article said the 76-year-old underwent “Facial Feminisation Surgery” in Thailand in 2016.
“I’ve been fully transitioned for three years now,” De Vendre said. “I am a woman physically, mentally and my hormone base is estrogen.”
Source: This Candidate Who “Loves Being A Bloody Woman” Says The Daily Tele Gave Her “Free Publicity”
I have a good mind to just write the words:
BECAUSE IT IS VICTIM BLAMING
And then end the blog, to be honest with you.
I have worked in sexual violence for 10 years and this practice is nothing new. Today it hit the headlines that police would be using consent forms to ask victims of rape and sexual violence to hand over their mobile phones to check up to 7 years of evidence, media, messages, internet history and call logs when they report rape or sexual violence.
Media outlets have also reported that police have refused to take rape and sexual violence reports where the woman has refused to hand over her phone – resulting in viable cases being ignored and not investigated because the woman refused to give access to her data.
Source: 7 reasons why I don’t support police checking victims’ mobile phones in sexual violence cases
It is women who make up over 60% of the membership of the Catholic Church, who statistically speaking are more likely to bring their children up in the faith and whose volunteering hours keep parishes alive. However, did you know that in 2019, women are still not welcome to sit at the table of its male leaders even in regards to decisions that directly affect them? It would seem that their opinions, expertise and perspectives do not matter.
I believe most people of faith, and most Catholics specifically would agree that it makes no sense that decisions affecting us all, cannot be voiced by only half of us. By excluding female voices from the decision making of one of the largest institutions in the world, half the Church remains silent.
Source: Why does the Catholic Church continue to ignore half the population?
